Re: (patch) SMP Alpha hacks for 2.1.120

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:00:28 -0400 (EDT)

Adam C. Powell, IV wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The following patch is against 2.1.120-pre3. It resolves several
> > problems when compiling with SMP = 1 on Alpha.

> Thanks for the post, but I don't think SMP works on Linux-Alpha. Nor on NT. In fact, I was
> under the impression that the 21164 can't do SMP with shared memory at all. Do you have a
> multi-processor box from DEC? If not, what's the motivation for SMP?

> Not to discourage you, but if this is your first time compiling a 2.1 kernel, it's probably not
> a good time to try to get full-blown SMP working on a multi-processor alpha box.

I have a low-end uni-processor Alpha, an AS 200. :)

But if SMP=1 is going to be the default way 2.1 is distributed, I
would like to get SMP=1 working on UP Alphas.

Jeff